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This movie isn't anything special. The story and villain wasn't compelling, and the sound quality made bits confusing and hard to follow. At least the animation was certainly better than I thought. The romantic chemistry between the boys was enjoyable to watch, and pretty much saves the movie. Considering it's for kids, it's a fairly acceptable and average adaptation from the books.

This animated movie actually turned out much better than I had anticipated. But then again, I had very little expectations to it, because I hadn't heard about it prior to finding it by blind luck.

I sat down to watch this with my, then 7 year old, son. And we were both quiet adequately entertained.

The story is entertaining and quite well written. However, if one is to point any critical fingers, then there weren't as many laughs as one could have hoped for. But still a great movie nonetheless.

The CGI animation was quite nice with lots of detail in every scene. And that definitely lifted the movie up quite a notch in terms of it being enjoyable and watchable.

"The Little Vampire" is certainly a movie that is quite suitable for the kids, without it being too much. There are no horror elements to it, so it is quite child-friendly.

I loved as a kid the Little Vampire books by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg. This is a free adaptation that doesn't really follow the novels, except some of the basic ideas, like the friendship between the mortal boy and the vampire boy and how traditional and old-fashioned the vampire family was. I felt the story here was weaker than in the novels. They tried to fit it too much to the standard action/adventure animated film model. I don't know, maybe a more faithful adaptation would have been too slow-paced for the intended audience, but it lost part of the character and individuality of the story., although some of it remains The adults were extremely passive/ineffectual for no good reason other than allowing the child characters to shine.

The funny parts were not so funny, including several scatological jokes involving cow poo.

The animation was basic. I liked the character designs, but the movement and backgrounds was not that good, compared with other recent animated movies. There was a lot of flying around by the vampire characters that maybe would look better in 3D (I saw this on TV).

All in all, an entertaining enough movie that should please child viewers, but I couldn't shake off the feeling that it might have been better. Rating: 6/10.

If the cartoon touches on a serious topic (like "lets go to fry these vampires"), then it's not just a children's cartoon, with farewell nonsense or flat humor (in the adult's understanding), but in this cartoon the level of humor and the behavior of the characters leaves much to be desired. And honestly, I believe that showing children "stupid adults" or "stupid villains" is wrong: Don't teach children a low-level understanding about people, they CAN understand a lot of things, just give them a chance. Such cartoons don't do that.

So cute and safe it's missing the horror-vampire theme completely, but then there's the friendship/bromance level that makes it all worth watching :)

I came here to find out why, turns out he was voiced by a woman. It's just grating and got on my nerves quick. Rest of the movie was ok, if they would have gotten an actual boy to play a boy, would have been better.

I Actually liked this movie, The fact that some people think its bad because it would tend your kids to the dark side should put more time in parenting and less in writing reviews. the story isn't really strong but fun to watch at. Beware to teach your kid that this movie is fiction and make sure to have a great time watching it. remember no tonics and sweets that is bad for your kid ;)

Awful watch, won't watch and can't recommend, even for younger audiences.

The best thing about this movie is how awful the villain is, it's like if Van Helsing was a jerk and vampires were all nice.

The sister is at least interesting, wrestling between cultures, but that is immediately trumped by child vampires. One of the most horrific versions of vampires is trapping someone in a 13 year old body for centuries, and they play it off as a laugh, as if he is 13.

In some versions, vampires are biological enough that they birth, giving a "pure" blood line ("Blade"), or can mate with humans under the right conditions, but either that is a Dampir or a human. It is VERY unclear what is happening here so I'm left with this clan regularly indoctrinates children into their vampire society to mimic human culture.

Then we have species jumping, where an animal gets infected (watch "Bunnicula" for a better version).

And then we have the dual homo erotic adventures, and I'm not even against it, but it is weirder than "Top Gun", at least it made sense those two were into each other. But the mortal is clearly into the vampire boy, and they write in the crush on the girl to normalize him to the audience, but it looks more like he's into both.

And the poor ginger guy, his boyfriend wakes him up in the middle of the night to go on this adventure and doesn't appreciate him the whole time.

This is clearly made by people that had a lot of money to make it well, and had a clear list of demands. It was given to a writer than saw it was garbage and clearly beneath him and decided to show the producers what they did. So, because he was good enough to, made this horrible thing he was asked to do, but in the least acceptable way that would be accepted and still be good enough not to sink his career. And I'm sure it still got noted to death.

Just steer away from this one. Vampires shouldn't be lovable characters in the same way humans are, they can stand on their own. Bring back powerful blood drinking characters.

Weak characters and poor dialogue, terrible all round. The only positive is the animation

I loved this movie and the cute romance between the 2 boys. to the makers of this movie, we would love to see movies like these in the future. keep up the great work.

Horrendous sound quality! They used some kind of filter especially for the scenes in the castle with the vampire clan. So difficult to make out the dialogue. All levels wrong. Shame as otherwise it seemed a decent enough movie for the kids.

Positives: Negatives: 1. A movie mostly for kids and they offer no subtitles! I guess teaching to read or to help those who have difficulties hearing is not important. 2. Not creative storytelling - been done many times before. 3. Animation quality was poor, e.g. all backgrounds were static painted such as clouds, grass, branches, human hair nothing alive & moving. The exception was the basic, in-the-foreground, human body movements were natural.

I found this movie on Netflix while trying to find a movie for my daughter and get past the blood sucking that's off camera it not violent. But it obviously a kids movie. And it has mood swings like a lady pregnant with a baby one moment a character is happy and then one moment he tried to attack him. And the other he's trying to be nice the other he's being a dick. So to a kid how has no care of what he's watching it's great, good kids movie but I am 23 so its not as pleasant to watch am not that old but old enough to not like this movie. But my 7 year old daughter loves it.

This is one of the worst movies I have endured on our family friday night movie session. It is dark the whole way through. The characters are either: gruff and mean or weak and submissive. The animation is good but the rest is terrible. I think my kids will be scarred for life from this film. Terrible

Hi lovelies,

The movie is amazing. From the beautiful accents to the blossoming love and friendship between the characters. It was absolutely amazing to watch it. The storyline is exciting and I like the dark theme surrounding the movie. I would love for the movie to have a sequel. The voice actors did an amazing job!

This is a must see movie!

Kind Regards,

Suman :)

I know this sounds pretty insane and ridiculous but that's my opinion and to make it more insane. I never liked the 2000 movie like, Vampires turning into humans? I'm sorry but I don't think no vampire ever wants to turn into human.

Anyway, I like the characters, the animation is good, I like the little jokes, the voice actors did a good job

I give this 10 stars!!!

The 3D stereoscopic effects are just perfect, why this film is not more well known is a complete mystery to me, I find it very sad that a film that has so much creative talent on display has not reached the audience it deserves I highly recommend that you seek out is incredible animated film, even adults will love it.

Okay, first of all have you seen the COW? That was pretty awesome, Tony and his vampire boyfriend trek through the woods of germany (I LOVE GERMANY!!) and are chased around by a gruesome twosome of attempted child murderers, while i do not condone their actions. In surviving and escaping these two, the boys formed a sort of subtextual romantic tension that is clear to literally everyone who sees the movie. It's sort of sweet, the movie feels the need to show that Tony is not in fact gay, by making him like a girl. But this is to distract from the fact the homies truly are in love. I'm watching this from the perspective of just some person watching random dutch movies, but i'm sure kids would like it too, it's not too impressive, but it impressed me with it's stunning cow.

This was a fun movie! My family and I enjoyed it very much. It was so funny!

How cute, I was more lazy to watch this animation, and it was cuter than I imagined, it lost a little breath in the third act, but it conquers and makes our hearts warm with cute messages and the characters totally passionate....

Hello parents and Rotten Tomato critics. I'd like to start off by saying, that this is an animated revival movie of an already very underground and niche kids movie. I saw a Rotten Tomato critic say that the convoluted storyline will fly over the heads of kids. Who the hell calls a kids movie convoluted, what kind of person does that? I had to look up the godamn word and I'm an adult. The movie has such refreshing character design, it reminds me almost of the movie "Daddy, Im a zombie" Which is such a good classic to me. To whoever is leaving harsh reviews on this movie, deserves a fat thumbs down.